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The Saudi government says the app provides services for all society members, but critics say it enables female abuse by allowing men to track their movements. (AFP pic) RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Saturday defended a mobile app that allows men in the kingdom to track female relatives after rights groups and a US lawmaker criticised tech giants for offering it. The...

A soldier walks during a candle light vigil to pay tribute to CRPF personnel who were killed after a suicide bomber rammed a car into the bus carrying them in south Kashmir on Thursday, in front of India Gate war memorial in New Delhi. (Reuters pic) SRINAGAR: India has warned against rising communal tensions across the country as Kashmiris living...

NEW DEHLI: At least 99 people have died and scores have been hospitalised in northern India after drinking toxic alcohol, triggering a crackdown against bootleggers, officials said Monday. News of the deaths in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand has trickled in over the past three days, with police suspecting the moonshine had been cut with methanol. Cheap, locally-made liquor...

QNA Munich The Amir His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani on Saturday attended the second day’s second session of Munich Security Conference during which German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke. The session was attended by a number of their excellencies heads of delegations participating in the conference. On the sidelines of the conference, HH the Amir met with President of Armenia Armen...

Prime Minister and Minister of Interior HE Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al Thani paid an inspection visit to Hamad General Hospital’s new Emergency Services building on Saturday. The prime minister toured the building to check on the various medical departments, facilities and modern medical equipment that are used to ensure the provision of the highest-quality services to...

The US military's Central Command said decision to reduce troop numbers was not linked to peace efforts. Even before any peace push-related drawdowns, the US military is expected to trim troop levels in Afghanistan as part of an efficiency drive by the new commander, a US general said, estimating the cuts may exceed 1,000 forces. US Army General Joseph Votel, head of the...

Armed groups have committed abuses in rebel-held Idlib and Turkish-controlled areas, rights groups say. Beirut, Lebanon - The last rebel-held enclave was meant to be a safe zone for three million displaced Syrians who fled government-controlled areas fearing arrest, torture or both. But similar crimes are happening in Idlib province - although to a lesser extent than they have been committed in government-controlled territory...

Narendra Modi under pressure from supporters to punish Pakistan for suicide attack on Indian paramilitary convoy. With India's general election barely months away, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is under heavy pressure from his supporters to punish Pakistan for a suicide attack on an Indian paramilitary convoy that killed at least 42 soldiers in India-administered Kashmir. India placed the blame for Thursday's bombing squarely on neighbouring Pakistan,...

More than 20,000 Syrians of Armenian heritage travelled to Yerevan as war unravelled, among them many jewellers. Yerevan, Armenia - Vahe Hovhannesian, a 31-year-old jeweller and Syrian refugee, sits by his work table in a studio in Yerevan.  An empty coffee cup, full ashtray, pliers, monocular glass loupe and weighing scale are scattered in front of him, along with a small pile...

Patrick Shanahan is on a surprise visit to Baghdad for talks on future of troops following the withdrawal from Syria. Patrick Shanahan, the acting US defence secretary, has arrived in Baghdad on an unannounced visit for talks on the continued United States troops presence in Iraq "We are in Iraq at the invitation of the government and our interests are to build Iraqi security...

At least 16 dead, including children, in air strikes as Kurdish-led fighters battle last ISIL remnants in eastern Syria. At least 16 civilians, including seven children, were killed in air attacks launched by a US-backed coalition aiming to capture ISIL's last enclave in eastern Syria. Fighter jets fired missiles in support of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Baghouz, a village in Deir Az...

Latest updates as Venezuela plunges into a major crisis amid a growing row over Nicolas Maduro's presidency. Venezuela has plunged into a major political crisis amid a growing row over President Nicolas Maduro's future as the country's leader. Maduro started a second term on January 10, following a widely boycotted election last year that many foreign governments refused to recognise. On January 23, Juan...

Qatar is hoping the Middle East region benefits from the 2022 football World Cup, organising committee head says. Qatar's preparations for hosting the 2022 footballWorld Cup are not hindered by a blockade imposed on it by some of its Gulf neighbours amid a major diplomatic crisis, according to the head of the tournament's organising committee. Hassan al-Thawadi, the secretary-general of the Supreme...

Qatar is hoping the Middle East region benefits from the 2022 football World Cup, organising committee head says. Qatar's preparations for hosting the 2022 footballWorld Cup are not hindered by a blockade imposed on it by some of its Gulf neighbours amid a major diplomatic crisis, according to the head of the tournament's organising committee. Hassan al-Thawadi, the secretary-general of the Supreme...